Divine Guru Yukteswar continues...
THE CAUSAL WORLD
The Causal world is indescribably subtle. In order to understand it, one would have to possess such tremendous powers of concentration that he/she could close their eyes and visualize the astral cosmos and the physical cosmos in all their vastness -- the luminous balloon with the solid basket -- as existing in ideas only.
If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two comoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, one would then reach the Causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter. There one perceives all created things -- solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, gods, mankind, animals, plants, bacteria -- as forms of consciousness, just as a person can close their eyes and realise that they exist, even though their body is invisible to the physical eyes and is present only as an idea.
Whatever a human being can do in fancy, a Causal being can do in reality. The most colossal imaginative human intelligence is able, in mind only, to range from one extreme of thought to another, to skip mentally from planet to planet, or tumble endlessly down a pit of eternity, or soar rocketlike into the galaxied canopy, or scintillate like a searchlight over the milky ways and the starry spaces. But beings in the Causal world have a much greater freedom, and can effortlessly manifest their thoughts into instant objectivity, without any material or astral obstruction or karmic limitation.
A COSMIC MIND
Causal beings realise that the physical cosmos is not primarily constructed of electrons, nor is the astral cosmos basically composed of lifetrons (Prana) -- both in reality are created from the minutest particles of God-thought, chopped and divided by "Maya" (Illusion), the law of relativity that apparently intervenes to separate creation from Creator.
Souls in the Causal world recognise one another as individualized points of joyous Spirit; their thought-things are the only objects that surround them. Causal beings see the difference between their bodies and thoughts to be merely ideas. As a man or woman, closing their eyes, can visualize a dazzling white light or a faint blue haze, so Causal beings by thought alone are able to see, hear, smell, taste, touch; they create anything, or dissolve it, by the power of Cosmic Mind.
SEA OF BLISS
Both death and rebirth in the Causal world are in thought. Causal-bodied beings feast only on the ambrosia of eternally new knowledge. They drink from the springs of peace, roam on the trackless soil of perception, swim in the ocean-endlessness of bliss. Lo! see their bright thought-bodies zoom past trillions of Spirit-created planets, fresh bubbles of universes, wisdom-stars, spectral dreams of golden nebulae on the skyey bosom of Infinity!
Many beings remain for thousands of years in the Causal Cosmos. By deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself from the little Causal body and puts on the vastness of the Causal Cosmos. All the seperate eddies of ideas, particularised waves of power, love, will, joy, peace, intuition, calmness, self-control and concentration melt into the overjoyous Sea of Bliss. No longer does the soul have to experience its joy as an individualized wave of consciousness, but is merged in the One Cosmic Ocean, with all its waves -- eternal laughter, thrills, throbs.
When a soul is out of the cocoon of the three bodies it escapes forever from the law of relativity and becomes the ineffable Ever-Existent. Behold! The butterfly of Omnipresence, its wings etched with stars and moons and suns!! The soul expanded into Spirit remains alone in the region of lightless light, darkless dark, thoughtless thought, intoxicated with its ecstacy of joy in God´s dream of Cosmic Creation.
(Article/Teaching is from "Autobiography of a Yogi".)
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